Edmund

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relation to Alexander IV

...followed the policies of his predecessor Innocent IV: he continued war on Manfred, Emperor Frederick II’s natural son (who was crowned king of Sicily in 1258), by excommunicating him and investing
Edmund, son of Henry III of England, with the papal fief of Sicily. He supported the new mendicant orders, especially the Franciscans, upholding the friars at Paris against the secular professors. He...